Handy notes and queries. A manual of useful information of especial importance to dealers in hardware, stoves and tinware, machinists', gas-fitters' and plumbers' materials, as well as the various workers in useful metals .. (1889)
Hopkins, Henry, [from old catalog] comp · New York, H. Hopkins & co. · leaf 103
are melted in separate crucibles, then added together in a pouring-t>ot and thoroughly mixed, and when at the proper temperature is pouredfrom a certain height upon a bundle of birch twigs, kept wet and agitatedat the surface of a tub of water. The solder is thus obtained in the shapeof fine… … wmm
Metal-work · Hardware
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